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Katharine Kerr The Spirit Stone
Book thirteen of the celebrated Deverry series, an epic fantasy rooted in Celtic mythology that intricately interweaves human and elven history over several hundred years. 'A dagger laid against our throat. 'So Prince Dar of the Westlands calls Zakh Gral, a new fortress built by the Horsekin, the ancient enemies of his people. To help him destroy this threat, the elven prince has called upon his allies: the dwarven folk of the northern mountains and the human men of Deverry to the east. Their leaders...
Engels | ePub2, 1,5 MB | HarperVoyager, [Nederland] | 2021
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez No One Writes to the Colonel
Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his moving novel No One Writes to the Colonel. 'The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful left'Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Edgar Allan Poe The Complete Short Stories
Surreal tales of suspense and imagination from an American masterThe Complete Short Storiesis the ultimate collection of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the macabrefrom the world-famous classics ';The Tell-Tale Heart,' ';The Pit and the Pendulum,' and ';The Cask of the Amontillado' to lesser-known masterpieces such as ';The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether' and ';The Devil in the Belfry. ' Fans of Poe's Gothic tales of horror will thrill to discover his brilliant French detective, C. Auguste...
Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, [Nederland] | 2021
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Fred Vargas The Chalk Circle Man
Commissaire Adamsberg
Discover the addictive first book in Fred Vargas s internationally acclaimed Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg series The hottest property in contemporary crime fiction Guardian Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is a born cop. When strange blue chalk...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Fred Vargas This Poison Will Remain
Commissaire Adamsberg
** Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month **The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France's multi-million-copy bestselling crime fiction star**A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**'Adamsberg is one of my favourite detectives... I so enjoyed This Poison Will Remain' ANN CLEEVESAfter three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex...
Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Robert Harris An Officer and a Spy
Now a Major Motion Picture
IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY***Winner of the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction******Now a feature film, winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 2019***Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd. Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil's Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence unit that tracked him down. But when Picquart discovers...
Engels | ePub2, 6,8 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Robert Harris Munich
Edge of War; Soon to be a major NETFLIX movie starring Jeremy Irons
Soon to be a major Netflix film starring Jeremy Irons MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two young men travel with their leaders. Former friends from a more peaceful time, they are now on opposing sides. As Britain's darkest hour approaches, the...
Engels | ePub3, 6,3 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Donna Leon Falling in Love
A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
An opera singer is terrified by an obsessive fan in this ';stunning' mystery in the New York Timesbestselling series set in Venice, Italy (Library Journal, starred review). Years ago, Guido Brunetti cleared the opera star Flavia Petrelli in the murder of a renowned conductor. Now the soprano is returning to Veniceand its celebrated opera house, La Feniceto sing the lead in Tosca. Brunetti and his wife, Paola, attend an early performance, and Flavia receives a standing ovation. Back in her dressing...
Engels | ePub2, 3 MB | Atlantic Monthly Press, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jose Saramago All The Names
A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose SaramagoSenhor Jose is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry. Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one of an apparently ordinary woman will transform his life. Breaking away from his strict routine, Jose resolves to track the woman down, obsessively following a thread of clues in a bid to rescue her from an...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Lisa Halliday Asymmetry
A scorchingly intelligent first novel' New York Times'Spellbinding' New Yorker'Thrilling' GuardianIn New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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George R.R. Martin A Feast for Crows
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A FEAST FOR CROWS is the fourth volume in the series. The Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow's Eye, as black a pirate...
Engels | ePub2, 3,6 MB | HarperVoyager, [Nederland] | 2021
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George R.R. Martin A Clash of Kings
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A CLASH OF KINGS is the second volume in the series. Throughout Westeros, the cold winds are rising. From the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding lands of Winterfell, chaos reigns as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms stake their claims through tempest, turmoil and war. As a prophecy of doom cuts...
Engels | ePub2, 3,5 MB | HarperVoyager, [Nederland] | 2021
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Donna Leon The jewels of paradise
Een uit Venetië afkomstige musicologe wordt gevraagd de nalatenschap van de Venetiaanse barokcomponist Agostini Steffani (1654-1728) te inventariseren.
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Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Danielle Steel The Mistress
Natasha Leonova s beauty saved her life. Discovered on a freezing Moscow street by a Russian billionaire, she has lived for seven years under his protection. Believing his generosity will always keep her safe, Natasha is careful not to dwell on Vladimir s ruthlessness or the deadly circles he moves in. Until she meets Theo Luca. The son of a famous and difficult artist, Theo and his mother own a restaurant filled with his late father s artwork. There, on a warm June evening, Theo first encounters...
Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Sue Townsend The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
The ORIGINAL teenage diarist is back in the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny, touching and bestselling Adrian Mole series. 'If I turn out to be mentally deranged in adult life, it will be all my mother's fault. 'Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary. 'I not only wept, I howled and hooted and had to get up and walk around the room and wipe my...
Engels | ePub2, 2 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jane Fallon Tell me a secret
Als Holly (43), alleenstaande moeder van Ashley (22) promotie krijgt op de scriptafdeling van een populaire soapserie, merkt ze als snel dat ze in haar werk gesaboteerd wordt. Ze roept de hulp in van goede vrienden.
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Engels | ePub3, 7,3 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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James Joyce Dubliners
Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021
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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward. This finest of all Christmas stories is beautifully illustrated with Arthur Rackham’s superb line drawings. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 2,5 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021
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Charles Dickens David Copperfield
Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists' Leo TolstoyIn David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew on his own experiences to create one of his most moving and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. It is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy childhood...
Engels | ePub3, 7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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T.C. Boyle After the plague
Bundel met zestien verhalen met een absurdistische inslag.
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Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [Nederland] | 2021
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